My first computer "hard disk" was a five Megabyte add-on to an Apple ][ Plus computer The "Sider"drive - it sat onward the side of the computer and was pronounced "cider" - was a very great assist to my law practice.

My first computer "hard disk" was a five Megabyte add-on to an Apple ][ Plus computer The "Sider"drive - it sat onward the side of the computer and was pronounced "cider" - was a very great assist to my law practice. literal meanings briefs, corporate minutes, deeds and the like could now be "permanently" saved and easily retrieved, instead of saving up to 100 Kilobytes, and eventually 140 Kilobytes of data onward a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk, then having to feed upon through a rapidly growing disk library to secure to the needed files. The Sider changed all that. Of course, with simply ...